Pimiento roaster



July 20,1937. M. M. LINKENAUGER PIMIENTO ROASTER f Filed Jan. 18, 1936 Patented July 29, 1937 narran STATE-s PATENr oer-ies i mattez,

Y PIMIENTO RoAs'rER Mont M. Linkenauger, Sumter, S. C.

1 Claim.

This invention relates to the roasting of pimientos and other Vegetables and fruits whereby the skins may be readily removed, and has for its primary object to provide anv inexpensive mechanism of simple construction for properly presenting the material to the iiames.

Another object of the invention consists in providing a mechanism which is highly efficient in operation and which can be operated at a minilO mum cost.

A further object of the invention resides in a method of advancing the pimientos or the like through the flame and rotating them'sc that a uniform application of the flame l5 surface of each article is insured.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

to the entire Figure 1 is a side elevational View of the complete device.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional View taken on line 3 3 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawing in more detail, the numeral I indicates any suitable frame construction provided with standards 2 of graduated height so as to support the track 3 for the oven at the desired inclination.

The track 3 comprises two angle irons 4-4 fixed to the upper ends of the standards 2 with their outer flanges extending vertically and their inner flanges directed toward each other. The vertical'flanges serve as guards to direct the movements of the oven as will later appear and the inwardly directed flanges form supports for bearings 5 in which are mounted transversely extending rollers t.

Four of these rollers are the upper edges of the webs.

The oven or roasting chamber comprises a channel iron l' of the desired length and width and a semi-circular hood 8 of the same length and substantially the same width.

The member 8 is inverted as indicated in the drawing, and its legs are preferably riveted to the of the respective angle irons 4.

vertical webs Adjacent its Application January 18, 1936, Serial No. 59,781

(Cl. 14S-46) upper end, which is the end at which the articles to be treated are received, the roasting chamber is provided with a smoke stack 9 and a baille plate I0 to direct the products of combustion to the entrance to the stack. Adjacent the lower and exit end of the chamber a burner I I is mounted at such angle as to direct its flame up the length of the oven. A valve' I2 is of course provided for the purpose of regulating the intensity of .the flame as may be desired.

Fixed to the underside of the oven 8 and disposed between it and the lateral webs of the angle irons 4 is a bar I3. To this bar is pivotally connected a rod i4 which has its opposite end xed to an eccentric strap I5. YThis strap cooperates with an eccentric I6 on a shaft I'I which is mounted in bearings I8 adjacent the entrance to the oven 8. Rotary motion is imparted to shaft I1 by means of a belt I9 cooperating vn'th a wheel 2U fixed to one end of shaft Il and agdrive wheel 2l fixed to a shaft 22. The shaft 22 may be driven by any desired means (not shown) Operation of the eccentric strap I5 and connecting rod HI will of course cause the oven 8 to be reciprocated over the roller bearings and in order to avoid undue jarring action springs23 are provided. These springs are connected to the sliding bar I3 and to a xed bar 24 disposed slightly beyond the lower limit of movement of bar I3. It will be apparent therefore that the springs 23 act as a shock absorber to eliminate excessive jarring of the parts.

The pimientos or other articlesto be treated. are fed to the upper end of the oven by a conveyer 25 or other suitable means cooperating with a bridge member 26, and the treated articles are discharged from the lower end of the oven onto a conveyer 2l or other suitable means for conveying them to the next point of operations.

In the operation of the device, the burner Il 40 is ignited and the valve I2 adjusted to provideV the desired intensity of flame. AThe drive pulley 2l is now set in operation so as to impart the necessary reciprocatoryv motion to the oven 8, and the articles are fed into the .open upper end of the ovenk by means of the conveyer 25. The inclination of the oven is such that there is a denite tendency for the articles to move by gravity down the length of the oven and this tendency is augmentedv by the reciprocations of the. oven 5 which overcomes the inertia of the articles and causes them to rotate about their axes as they travel toward the conveyer 2l. The downward travel of the oven of course slows down the speed of rotation of the articles momentarily. It will 55 thus be apparent that the surfaces of the articles are repeatedly presented to the ame in a very thorough and efcient manner thus avoiding any possibility of untreated articles being discharged from the oven.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawing it Will be apparent that I have devised an exceedingly simple and inexpensive method and apparatus for the treatment of pimientos and like articles in bulk; that individual treatment of the several articles is provided for without separate handling as is required in many prior devices; and that the cost of operation is reduced to a minimum.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described what I now believe to be the preferred construction of the apparatus, but inasmuch as various minor changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the 20 spirit of the invention it is intended that all such changes be included Within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A roasting mechanism for pimientos and the like comprising a base member including inclined angle bars and a cross-bar at the top of the base, an elongated, open-ended oven reciprocably mounted on the base, a plurality of rollers interposed between the oven and base, the bottom of the oven being flat and extending downwardly in a single plane from end to end of the oven, a burner at the lower end of the oven and adapted to direct its ame toward the opposite end of the oven, means for reciprocating the oven, a crossbar on the bottom of the oven to which the reciprocating means is attached, and a spring having its respective ends connected to the cross-bar on the oven and the cross-bar on the base. 

